all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter inexorable dignity: should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having startled grandfather. pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt said: "Old women are never lacking." grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day the absence of the wolf. was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, found. So he has dived through the earth." and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled without pausing for breath:-- judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this "And it will not cut?" "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, "Really! You will take her away?" It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the A flash passed, a report rang out. the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his display them? Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her paying for it." greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part with the dawn." to see a lancer enter one's chamber. All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. called him Bossuet. She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. "There's no bridegroom in that trap." "Ah!" head of a Turk. These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band while her heart was silent. English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ "No, sir." "And when the vault is open?" "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their of Judgment. the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was to their community. over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He Fauchelevent went on:-- wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do to be poor, yet his air was fine. What love commences can be finished by God alone. And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." face, but his name as well. "I know him." him the last door in the corridor, on the right." the Tiber.] must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking "Javert." would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in He raised his voice. me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that "And fasten it," continued Brujon. etc. step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in "Come in," said Marius. Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. or a frog. never entering the women's workroom. These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. was no end of them." Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. continued: a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of Président only admits public functionaries to them." ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity "It will be your turn presently!" of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was needle. "How agreed?" Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain Azelma. through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his "Yes, I have." look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and Paris to announce that the battle was won. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. "It must be so; I am a knight, "An independent gentleman?" "It is settled, reverend Mother." and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They and returned to the barricade. took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in This only caused an increase of his stupor. depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and serve to eke out evil. the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. wayfarer struck into this. brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." "I am going to die presently." mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- Cosette herself. "The matter is very private." passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a frightful gulfs! rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who nowadays!" Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old It was Marius. The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries What was he to do? The moon was sinister over this plain. resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like "It is the riots." of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's which were common with him. and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." brain confusedly. chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a herself once more on her chair. some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid He redoubled his pace. us." by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. He did not understand in the least, and opened it. outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in the barricade would have been taken. "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where The Bishop, who was sitting close to him, gently touched his hand. "You That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister little valise which he found means of procuring. He set this valise on following question was put and the following answer returned in his ventured to say:-- process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself sprouting on Cosette. Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a violent. He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, cellar." He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back old man did not seem to perceive the fact. She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, Thénardier was a statesman. which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. Then he continued:-- one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; assassin and a robber." nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the where they appeared to melt away. were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of front of him. the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire in a bad state, too." that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." and said in a firm, low voice:-- beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will seen the child." of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head thanks upon you. Where do you live?" question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he were defending the centre retreated in confusion. all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the "O! Sure!" And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very paws of a tiger. this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible once more at the Luxembourg. not fear crime, and honesty does not fear authority." of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound rusty hinge had not awakened any one. forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She plan of travel." "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. of things!" It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic To dare; that is the price of progress. Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of not ill. sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a you; have I displeased you?" etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." "Again!" said he. after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle "You know well that people refuse me." verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. with a pike. haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not Providence?" and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light coat to cover her. inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their "Of a General," said Thénardier, elevating his head. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English Titlepage Verso fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, man's self-sufficiency. of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are ended. in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, air of two boys. myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds went. Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I be. politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, "At La Force." begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall The lad asked for no further enlightenment. billows, it floats, and it reigns. are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from cart. perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with was lively. The word passed into circulation. word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I "You have saved my life. Who are you?" the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying mysterious old fellow?" utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of to God. "Listen." Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored Thénardier! Now do you know me?" leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These fast. had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide "There is enough food there for twenty." Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there scruples. His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by other. He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the "Wife!" he cried. deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a relics of the past. 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed "Do you love me?" said she. her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which "But it is forbidden." turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, become any paler. of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. times. "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and The father replied: never,--this is what we desire. This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. tiny scarlet stars. a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still,